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Re: Happy Earth Day!
« Reply #15 on: April 23, 2008, 10:03:48 am »
Energy saver bulbs?  Those spirally fluorescent ones?  Yeah, so you're saving some energy but endangering everyone with mercury.  Cool.

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Re: Happy Earth Day!
« Reply #16 on: April 23, 2008, 10:08:19 am »
"endangering everybody with mercury" -- that's if you don't dispose of them properly.

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Re: Happy Earth Day!
« Reply #17 on: April 23, 2008, 10:17:55 am »
Do you call a hazmat team when they break, too?

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Re: Happy Earth Day!
« Reply #18 on: April 23, 2008, 11:03:09 am »
I haven't broken a lightbulb in my life (that wasn't intentional).

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Re: Happy Earth Day!
« Reply #19 on: April 23, 2008, 12:08:57 pm »
iago, you're hurting our chances of survival.  You need to be releasing more greenhouse gases.
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Re: Happy Earth Day!
« Reply #20 on: April 23, 2008, 12:24:34 pm »
pfft, that's an Australian news site. We all know that everything is the opposite there!

<edit> and also, it's not just the greenhouse gas emissions that the meat industry releases -- it also takes a hell of a lot more land than fruit/vegetables, and also the disposal of the waste. :P
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Re: Happy Earth Day!
« Reply #21 on: April 23, 2008, 12:34:58 pm »
I connected with nature yesterday.

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Re: Happy Earth Day!
« Reply #22 on: April 23, 2008, 12:42:34 pm »
I connected with nature yesterday.
Sex with a tree?

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Re: Happy Earth Day!
« Reply #23 on: April 23, 2008, 01:16:03 pm »
I connected with nature yesterday.
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Re: Happy Earth Day!
« Reply #24 on: April 23, 2008, 02:01:40 pm »
Energy saver bulbs?  Those spirally fluorescent ones?  Yeah, so you're saving some energy but endangering everyone with mercury.  Cool.

My father, who's an analytical chemist, told me that the really only dangerous or toxic form of mercury was what fish digested. He told me the reason, I will try to get it exactly how he said..

He said that the mercury fish digest broke down a little, and bonded with a sulfate in the fishes stomach. He said that mercury sulfate has a low LD50, and that you don't only have to digest it to die, you can also inhale it.

He said other that that type of mercury, it's not too bad.

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Re: Happy Earth Day!
« Reply #25 on: April 23, 2008, 05:13:47 pm »
Energy saver bulbs?  Those spirally fluorescent ones?  Yeah, so you're saving some energy but endangering everyone with mercury.  Cool.

My father, who's an analytical chemist, told me that the really only dangerous or toxic form of mercury was what fish digested. He told me the reason, I will try to get it exactly how he said..

He said that the mercury fish digest broke down a little, and bonded with a sulfate in the fishes stomach. He said that mercury sulfate has a low LD50, and that you don't only have to digest it to die, you can also inhale it.

He said other that that type of mercury, it's not too bad.

I dunno, MSNBC has an article that says one bulb can contaminate 6000 gallons of water.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23694819/

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Re: Happy Earth Day!
« Reply #26 on: April 23, 2008, 05:30:26 pm »
I connected with nature yesterday.
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Re: Happy Earth Day!
« Reply #27 on: April 23, 2008, 05:34:56 pm »
I dunno, MSNBC has an article that says one bulb can contaminate 6000 gallons of water.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23694819/
I'm glad you trust MSNBC for all of your science news.
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Re: Happy Earth Day!
« Reply #28 on: April 23, 2008, 05:36:01 pm »
I dunno, MSNBC has an article that says one bulb can contaminate 6000 gallons of water.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23694819/
I'm glad you trust MSNBC for all of your science news.
Let's weigh the options.

Guy on the Internet vs. MSNBC ... hmmm.  MSNBC ftw

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Re: Happy Earth Day!
« Reply #29 on: April 23, 2008, 06:25:16 pm »
I dunno, MSNBC has an article that says one bulb can contaminate 6000 gallons of water.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23694819/
I'm glad you trust MSNBC for all of your science news.
Let's weigh the options.

Guy on the Internet vs. MSNBC ... hmmm.  MSNBC ftw
So.. guy on the Internet vs another guy on the Internet? :P

Next you'll be citing TheRegister as a source!